The Life History Of Margaret Sanger Slee Higgins:Margaret Sanger Slee Higgins was born on 14 September 1879 and died on September 6, 1966. She is an American birth control activist and founder of the American League for Birth Control.Margaret Sanger was born in Corning, New York. Margaret Sanger's mother, Anne Purcell Higgins, was a devout Catholic who survived 18 pregnancies (11 live births) to die of tuberculosis and cancer of the cervix. Sanger's father, Michael Higgins, Hennessy, earning a living, bore the angels and saints of the huge blocks of white marble or gray granite gravestones " , as well as an activist women's suffrage, and free public education. Sanger was the sixth of eleven children , and spent much of his youth assistance in housekeeping and care of her younger brothers and sisters. Sanger attended Claverack College, a boarding school in Claverack within two years. The sisters paid her tuition fees. Sanger returned home in 1896 following his father's request to return home to feed the mother. Her mother died March 31, 1896. By the end of the century, the mother of one of his friends arranged for her Claverack enroll in the program of care in a hospital in White Plains, New York-rich suburbs. In 1902, Margaret Higgins married architect William Sanger and the couple settled in New York.